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How is/was DJ Khalid ever famous? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by Coolbootyjames@lemmy.ml to c/music@lemmy.ml
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Feel free to take this down if this isn't what this community is for, but I was just thinking about that guy and wondering how on earth he ever became popular. Like people talk about industry plants, but he surely must be one no?

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[โ€“] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Half the stuff in mainstream music industry seems to be about using connections and marketing to get memed to the top. I wonder how much exactly the unfunny memes of DJ Khaled saying "another one" helped him get so popular.

[โ€“] Coolbootyjames@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's true, but if feel like most of those people have at least some marketable quality, I really struggle to think of any for DJ Khalid. Except for the potential to make fun of him like you mentioned I suppose